Month: October 2024

The TDPS archive project, while still in planning, has had some pretty significant progress this semester. A new avenue for hosting our pictures has opened through Digital Grinnell, and if we decide to commit to that route, we can start gathering our digital materials to send into it. There are still some questions regarding the creation of a separate site using Omeka to display the TDPS specific collection, as well as next steps for sending materials to DG. We talked about getting access to the library subscription of Omeka, with the only main downside being that we couldn’t edit themes or other visual aspects of our website, which I am fine with personally. I haven’t spoken to Kate and Erik about this just yet since we are still waiting on word from Mark McFate. I think my next steps would be to review Omeka and it’s page setups, so that if we do get access to a domain for the archive, we can work on how to display the content in a way that we think is feasible.

There is also the matter of digitizing the content that we do not have in the drive yet, mainly the show posters. We do have access to the scanners for them now, so scanning the posters is a task for me. I would need to sort through the posters in the recording studio before bringing them up to the offices to start scanning. I haven’t gotten around to it, but this will be my main goal after break.

I revisited the training for WeVideo this week because I was curious about how much more it had to offer. Ever since I first used WeVideo, I have learned how to use Adobe Premiere Pro and have edited a few videos using it, and I wanted to see how similar the offerings in WeVideo were to it. Something I didn’t realize the first time I used WeVideo was that you could edit the video itself by clicking on it. The options for color editing and masking and the like are there, and they work pretty well. The masking is pretty bare bones, using a simple color key system instead of allowing the user to create one from a shape. I still think WeVideo is pretty fun to use, and I may revisit it to create videos.

I decided to focus on Omeka today. I’m still pretty familiar with it from last year, so I didn’t find the training too difficult (aside from the fact that I had to reinstall the domain, sadness). Last year, I didn’t pay much attention to the plugins, but this time around I decided to scroll through the ones Omeka had up. I found some pretty interesting plugins like a CSV import button, which I think could be part of future trainings to give pre-existing content to import and look at in Omeka.